The whistle is just seconds away and the Spain bench is all lined up primed to charge on and celebrate a World Cup final appearance for the European champions

Three minutes will be added to this match and you can cut the tension with a knife!

Spain are moments away from a historic first-ever place in the World Cup final. Netherlands await the winner in Johannesburg on Sunday evening

Silva and Iniesta almost combine with an audacious one-two but the ball is blocked out for a corner. Spain won't mind too much though as more time ticks away

Joachim Low is pacing his technical area as time begins to run out on Germany's hopes of holding aloft another World Cup

Puyol does superbly to beat Klose and Gomez to a cross with a brave header. He's defended like a lion in the closing stages of this second half

Schweinsteiger goes down on the edge of the box after a clash with Puyol but the referee waves play on to the anger of several Germany players

It's all Germany as time begins to tick away on their World Cup dream. Spain are defending awfully deep though

Pedro wastes a chance to kill the game. He breaks into the box but rather than square to the unmarked Torres tries to cut back inside Friedrich and loses the ball

Villa breaks one-on-one with Friedrich but stumbles as he looks to power into the box and that allows Lahm time to chase back and clear the danger

Germany certainly aren't throwing in the towel and Spain might be in for a nervous last 10 minutes

Joachim Low must come up with the answers now for Germany. He has one change remaining and it looks like being a last throw of the dice

Iniesta bundles his way past Lahm but that man Schweinsteiger is there to cut out the cross

Germany are enjoying their most productive spell of the match and suddenly they are dominating possession and pushing Spain back

Casillas parries a shot from Kroos on the back post after Klose dummies Podolski's chipped cross. That was Germany's best chance of the match!

Pedro runs at his marker and drills a low shot on target but that's easy for Neuer who holds cleanly

Villa is still too much of a peripheral figure for Spain and the Barcelona striker keeps giving the ball away when he gets it

Spain are really beginning to ask questions of the Germany defence now with Xavi and Iniesta becoming more prominent

Ramos appeals for a penalty after going to ground under challenge with Podolski while looking to latch on to Alonso's centre. He was always looking for that and the referee was right

Klose diverts a deflected cross goalwards at full stretch but a half-chances flies comfortably over the crossbar as Germany respond

Alonso plays in Iniesta whose cut back goes untouched through the six-yard box and almost finds the sliding Villa on the back post. Spain are really knocking on the door now

Neuer dives full length to his left to block a low shot from Pedro after Xavi and Alonso carve out a shooting chance from 15 yards. That was a really good piece of goalkeeping

Schweinsteiger is covering every blade of grass in the Germany midfield and he has been one of the stars of a poor game so far

Xavi picks out Villa on the edge of the box but his side-foot shot doesn't have enough curl and rolls harmlessly wide of the far post

Alonso is getting closer as he drives a low shot a few yards wide of the mark after being teed up by Xavi's square pass

Alonso strokes a 20-yard shot comfortably wide after a jinking run by the lively Pedro down the right flank

Pedro gets away down the right but his cross looking for the solitary figure of Villa is well over-hit

Germany break swiftly and Ozil finds himself through on goal before falling after the slightest of touches from Ramos. The referee says no penalty and he probably got that call right

Vicente del Bosque might be thinking the decision to leave Torres out of his starting line-up was the wrong one as his lightweight front three have not really been in the game

Spain are finishing the half as they started it in full control of the ball but without really threatening the German defence

Jerome Boateng is on a final warning from the referee after clattering Ramos on the shins and then lambasting the linesman for raising his flag

Capdevila darts down the left and sends over a cross which Mertesacker is forced to head away with a diving clearance

So far this isn't the classic semi-final we were promised. It's more like a cagey game of chess

Ozil wastes a good chance as he tries to cut into the box rather than shooting and Pique manages to scramble the ball clear

For all Spain's possession they are still not clicking in the final third and Vicente del Bosque is cutting an irritated figure on the bench

Mesut Ozil gets around the back of the Spain defence for the first time but his cut back is blocked out for a corner by Puyol

Casillas turns a low shot from 25 yards by Trochowski around his post as Germany threaten in numbers for the first real time

Alonso goes for goal from 30 yards but it's comfortably wide of Neuer's upright and the keeper was never unduly worried

For all Spain's flair players they certainly put a shift in. The Germans aren't been given a second on the ball and it's clearly unsettling them

Podolski takes a blow to the foot from Ramos but there's no sign of a yellow card from the Hungarian referee

Ramos picks out Pedro on the edge of the box but his acrobatic effort is mis-timed and balloons high up into the Durban sky

Villa twists and turns in the box but Arne Friedrich does well not to fall for the dummies and blocks his low shot from a tight angle

Xavi in inches away from playing Villa clean through on goal with an early pass in-between the two centre-halves

Sami Khedira stands up well and times a tackle on Iniesta to perfection as he looked to glide into the penalty area

Xabi Alonso picks out Ramos with a long angled pass but the full-back decides to go for goal from an impossible angle and slices his wasteful shot well high and wide

Germany are slowly gaining a foothold in this match but Klose, Piotr Trochowski and Lukas Podolski are still a little too isolated for coach Joachim Low's liking

Casillas just about gets enough on a corner to tip the ball over the head of the waiting Bastian Schweinsteiger who was shaping to head home from close range

Andres Iniesta whips in a dangerous cross which Carles Puyol heads over the bar from six yards despite being unmarked. That should have been the opening goal and the Barcelona captain knows it!

Sergio Ramos is effectively playing as a right winger such is Spain's territorial advantage and Germany are sitting awfully deep

Both Gerard Pique and then Iker Casillas get away with dwelling on the ball under pressure from Klose in a worrying passage of play for Spain

Germany have barely made it out of their own half as Spain continue to dominate possession

Manuel Neuer spots the danger and comes quickly off his line to block a shot on the stretch from David Villa after a wonderful throughball down the inside right channel from Pedro

A conservative estimate would be 80/20 possession in terms of Spain so far in what has been a cagey opening from both sides

Play is temporarily halted as a fan sprints onto the pitch. He's quickly escorted away by security officials

Pedro has showed a couple of nice touches already on his first Spain start. He could be an important player tonight

Joan Capdevila sends over a disappointing over-hit cross to end a spell of Spain possession

Spain are seeing plenty of the ball early on and that's not unexpected as this Germany team likes to play on the break